Amber, aren't Dogwood flowers gorgeous? Ichabod knew it wasn't a poisonous snake so he picked it up just so I could get a picture.

Thanks!

August, now that you put it that way, it doesn't sound very nice does it??? :)

Everybody, listen up! August takes the most beautiful pictures of fungus that I've ever seen! Mine usually aren't in focus. I was proud of this one. That skunk cabbage really stood out, all alone like that. Thanks!

Mr B, Ichabod is quite the snake-handler, eh? You know what I mean about August and fungus.

MD, thanks! I love to catch the spring flowers. Their time is so fleeting.

Chia, thanks!

Bucky, a snake shaker? That sounds kinda dirty. After that comment I think it'll be Landover Baptists that he hears from.

My mother tried to sneak some skunk cabbage into our house (stuffed down her shirt) to play a trick on my dad when we lived in Michigan. She tripped on the entryway and it broke in her shirt. It was high-LARIOUS.

Non-threathening snakies are kinda cool. We have photos of the kiddos and I holding a huge Burmese python -- she was so heavy it took all three of us to support her weight, probably 6 inches in diameter. I loved all these pictures! Those spring beauties look a little like phlox. I wonder if they're related?

In my many walks I have encountered numerous snakes. The only one that ever panicked me was a rattler I stepped on in the Arizona desert. Thankfully, I frightened the snake as much as the snake frightened me: he slithered in one direction as I jumped in another.